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thanks. Yes on further reflection i think maybe there are two earth cables which have been sheathed with the green insulation. This would seem logical as i see from pictures of old wiring on websites that generally there is a red, black and bare copper earth running between, so i guess the...

there was a single earth cable, and two red, two black entering the box. The earth cable appeared seperate to the pairs of black/red I will wait till tmoro (daylight). Switch off all the elec, mains & fuses and have another look and post again.

Hi you can see our plug socket here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/username59/extrapics/elec.jpg it is a single plug socket flush in the wall. Then it appears someone has mounted a box proud of the wall to convert to a double socket. We want to replace this with a double socket flush to...